When I do ls with grep, the result is exaxtly what I need: a list of dlls, see below:
$ ls -R | grep "dll$"
boost_chrono-vc90-gd-1_47.dll
boost_chrono-vc90-mt-gd-1_47.dll
boost_chrono-vc90-1_47.dll
boost_chrono-vc90-mt-1_47.dll
boost_date_time-vc90-gd-1_47.dll
boost_date_time-vc90-mt-gd-1_47.dll
boost_date_time-vc90-1_47.dll
boost_date_time-vc90-mt-1_47.dll
boost_filesystem-vc90-gd-1_47.dll
boost_filesystem-vc90-mt-gd-1_47.dll
boost_filesystem-vc90-1_47.dll
...
But when I tried to copy all those dll to a destination say ../, I got errors and no files is copied:
$ cp `ls -R | grep "dll$"` ../
cp: cannot stat `boost_chrono-vc90-gd-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_chrono-vc90-mt-gd-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_chrono-vc90-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_chrono-vc90-mt-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_date_time-vc90-gd-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_date_time-vc90-mt-gd-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_date_time-vc90-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_date_time-vc90-mt-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_filesystem-vc90-gd-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `boost_filesystem-vc90-mt-gd-1_47.dll': No such file or directory
...
I used be able to to this for my previous boost build using cygwin, but I don't know why now it's not working for boost build 1-47.
Apprecaite any input.
You see a list of dlls, but you don't know in which directories they live. The directory name is printed on a separate line once, and filtered out by grep.
You cannot use ls -R for anything meaningful. The output format is too script-unfriendly. Use find instead. This command
find . -name "*.dll"
will print full path names of your dlls (no need to use grep). This command
find . -name "*.dll" -exec cp {} ..
will copy the files to .. instead of printing their names.